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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil
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Feb 28, 2017
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
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1984
1984
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Dec 31, 2016
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Fahrenheit 451
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Dark Matter
Dark Matter
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love
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Burnt Shadows
Burnt Shadows
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Zaviya / زاویہ
Zaviya / زاویہ
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Feb 07, 2015
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Zaviya 2 / زاویہ ٢
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Zaviya 3 / زاویہ ٣
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As all would die, so did Jon Elia. During the last 40 years Death stared in his face many a time but he kept on eluding it. A chronic TB patient in the mid-50s, he escaped from the clutches of Death due to sheer will power. May be his fervent faith in the immortality of his poetry overcame the frequent summons of Death. Finally he bowed out... Jon Elia was not only a brilliant poet. He invented scores of new metrical schemes in his poetry - more than many classical poets of Urdu. He also gave birth to hundreds of unusual phrases - similes and metaphors - which no other poet of his age has done so far. Besides Jon Elia has use well-rhymed Nazms and free-verse poems with an unusual command over the form and content. There is no doubt that he has no peer in the area of innovative form of creativity. As a Mushaira poet he dominated the Mushairas and quite a few popular poets feel compelled to refrain from participating in Mushairas fearing that they would be eclipsed by Jon Elia. I have seen the audiences he bewitched as a magician overseas and the least that could be said bordered on the superlative: he was amply dazzling. He had the unusual gift of turning a Mushaira into a great event. Jon Elia was a scholar of great merit. He translated numerous classics of Arabic and Persian e.g. Masih-i-Baghdad Hallaj, Jometria, Tawasin, Isaghoji, Rahaish-o-Kushaish, Farnod, Tajrid, Masail-i-Tajrid, Rasail Akhwan-us-Safa - perhaps the kind of work which no single person could ever think of attempting - and Akhbar-ul-Hallaj etc. He has also authored four works Ismailiat, Sham-o-Iraq Mein, Ismailiat, Jazair Arab Mein, Ismailiat, Yemen Mein and Hasan Bin Sabbah... Jon Elia, it has not been often conceded, is an important stylist of Urdu prose as well. He had a peculiar stamp of originality deriving its strength from the modern Arabic stalwarts of prose and he excelled in the prose - style characteristic of the revealed or inspired Semitic classics. Perhaps he was the Khalil Jibran of Urdu. In fact his Mushaira image never allowed him to turn to these areas of accomplishments. He thought that his labour of love in prose will be looked after by the organizations he worked for. But this has not come to pass. Jon Elia is dead but he will live on because his poetry touches the chords of our intimate but unusual feelings so often that he emerges as the most intimate stranger. source: Raja Asghar, www.dawn.com
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